Restless roosts: Light pollution affects behavior, sleep, and physiology in a free-living songbird

Global Change Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 4987-4994

  Ouyang, Jenny Q ^a,b   de Jong, Maaike ^b   van Grunsven, Roy H A ^c,d   Matson, Kevin D ^d   Haussmann, Mark F ^e   Meerlo, Peter ^f   Visser, Marcel E ^b   Spoelstra, Kamiel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

activity; artificial light; great tit; haptoglobin; malaria; oxalic acid; telomeres

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HEALTH IMPACT; LIGHT POLLUTION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALIA; PARUS MAJOR; PASSERI;

ANIMAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; INNATE IMMUNITY; LIGHT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLUTION; RADIATION RESPONSE; SLEEP; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FEMALE; IMMUNITY, INNATE; LIGHT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SLEEP; SONGBIRDS;

EID: 85020463115     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13756     Document Type: Article

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